Automatic eye detection using intensity filtering and K-means clustering

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1633-1640

  Qian, Zhiming ^a,b   Xu, Dan ^b  

^a CHUXIONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Eye detection; Gabor transformation; Neighborhood operator

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EYE DETECTION; EYE DETECTION METHOD; EYE WINDOW; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; FRONTAL FACES; ILLUMINATION VARIATION; K-MEANS CLUSTERING;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EYE PROTECTION;

EID: 77955551492     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2010.05.012     Document Type: Article

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